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ARHI 2100. . (4 Credits) ART HISTORY A consideration of the language of design and structure of key architectural monuments from ancient times until the present. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional Courses hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of Our Courses an additional hour of formal instruction. Attribute: AHMO. ARHI 1100. Art History Introduction: World Art. (3 Credits) This course is an introduction to the study of art history, approached from ARHI 2221. Japanese Visual Culture: Prehistory to Present. (4 Credits) a global . It reaches back to (c. 3300 to 1100 BCE) An examination of Japanese visual culture from prehistory to and ends with the present. Because most human societies have created contemporary society. Issues and material explored: the development and art, this course looks at works created in , the Americas, Asia, and spread of Buddhism, temple art and architecture, and prints, Africa. And since art objects can and do move across cultural boundaries, the interaction of art and popular culture, manga, anime, and contacts it also looks at the cross-cultural transmission of artworks. Students with western society. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per will learn about how peoples across space and time created works of art week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the and architecture in response to social crisis, as an aid to or container of part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. ritual, and to express norms and ideals of gender. Students will come to Attributes: AHGL, COLI, GLBL, INST, ISAS. understand how and why abstraction and naturalism emerged at different ARHI 2223. Art and Violence in Modern Asia. (4 Credits) times and places. The course is a collaborative endeavor, co-designed by This course considers intersections between art and violence in modern faculty members in Fordham’s program in art history (Professors Beach, Asia. It will focus on propaganda art from Japan, China, South Korea, Ikeda, Isaak, Mundy, Rowe, Ruvoldt, and Teverson), and facilitated by our and North Korea, and examine how violence is advocated through visual curator for visual resources (Katherina Fostano) and a team of teaching language in relation to differing political , such as imperialism, assistants. Students will be taught a unified curriculum in sections led fascism, communism, and nationalism. by a single professor, but cross-section activities, made possible through Attributes: AHGL, GLBL. digital technology, will allow them to become part of a larger community ARHI 2230. . (4 Credits) of art history students at Fordham. Through this course, therefore, as you This course presents an overview of some of the most important gain a broad and deep understanding of art history, you will also get to episodes of Islamic art and architecture from their origins to the 18th know leading scholars in the field and peers who are enthusiastic about century. We will focus on the monumental mosques, mausolea, and the study of art and will help you see how it intersects with the interests palaces of the great dynasties, as well as the most prized of more and concerns of the current moment. delicate artistic traditions such as , manuscript painting, Attributes: FACC, FRFA, GLBL, INST, ISIN. textiles and ceramics. Emphasis will be given equally to visual/ ARHI 1101. Introduction to Art History: Europe. (3 Credits) interpretive analysis and critical thinking, and will entail readings from An introduction to the study of the art of Europe through key paintings, an introductory textbook as well as more in-depth scholarly writings. architecture, and other arts. Form, style, context, function, and Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three the changing role of the artist in society are explored. additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student Attributes: FACC, FRFA, INST, ISEU. in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. ARHI 1102. Introduction to Art History: Asia. (3 Credits) Attributes: AHAM, AHGL, GLBL, MEST, MVAM, MVST, REST. An introduction to the study of the art of Asia. This course covers ARHI 2250. Ancient American Art. (4 Credits) architecture, sculpture, and paintings in India, China, and Japan from the Introduction to the art of Mexico, Central America and Peru from ancient to the contemporary period. its beginnings to the time of its contact with Europe. Examination Attributes: AHGL, FACC, FRFA, GLBL, INST, ISAS. of architecture, sculpture, ceramics, and paintings in the context of ARHI 1103. Introduction to Art History: Americas. (3 Credits) such cultures as Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Aztec, Chavin, Mochica, A survey of the art and architectural traditions of the Americans from Tiahuanaco and Inca. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 3000 BCE to the present. This course explores artistic productions in minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per both North and and considers how architecture and visual week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal works have been used to express ideas about American identity and the instruction. place of the Americas in the world. Attributes: ACUP, AHAM, AHGL, AMST, ASAM, GLBL, LAHA, LALS, MVAM, Attributes: ACUP, AHGL, AMST, ASAM, FACC, FRFA, GLBL, INST, ISIN, ISLA, MVST. LAHA, LALS. ARHI 1298. Art History AP. (3 Credits) Students who have taken AP Art History exam and have scored a 4 or 5 can have this score count like a course, fulfilling the Fine Arts core requirement. Attributes: FACC, FRFA.

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ARHI 2257. Modern Latin American Art. (4 Credits) ARHI 2315. . (4 Credits) In modern period, Latin American nations, the by-product of European This class is a survey of the art and architecture of from the colonization, developed artistic traditions that grew out of their own Republican and Hellenistic periods through the era of Constantine (5th distinct realities. This course looks at two great shaping forces of modern century BCE- 4th century CE). Though chronological in structure, this Latin American Art: nationalism, which called on visual art to both course will also address overarching issues and themes in art history create a national identity and to reflect it; and , an aesthetic and archaeology, such as the power of images in the ancient world (as movement that insisted on artistic autonomy. In more recent years, the opposed to/similar to today), Roman ways of looking at art and space, political integrity of Latin American nations has been challenged by the role of monuments, makers and patrons in Roman society, and oppressive governments and imperialism, leading artists to seek new connections with the other cultures who inspired and made use of Roman ways of expressing ideas and identity within and beyond the national artists and styles. Overall however, the class is intended to introduce sphere. We will also be seizing the many opportunities that New York students to the ways in which Western Civilization is indebted to Roman offers to see Latin American art first hand at sites that include El Museo culture. NOTE: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week del Barrio, Sotheby's, and the Cecilia de Torres Gallery. Four-credit require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of Attributes: AHAM, CLAS, OCAH, OCST. an additional hour of formal instruction. ARHI 2320. The Fall of : A Material Culture Investigation. (4 Attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AHGL, AHMO, AMST, ASAM, GLBL, INST, ISLA, Credits) LAHA, LALS. An interdisciplinary investigation of the period ca. 300—800 AD. The ARHI 2305. . (4 Credits) traditional model of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the " will This course provides a survey of the major monuments of Greek Art from be considered in the light of modern conceptions of "" by the through the (c. 2500-100 B.C.), focusing scholars such as Peter Brown, who see this as a period of sometimes on their function in Greek and ritual mythological depictions in vase dramatic cultural and political transformation, defined by the growth paintings, funerary sculpture, the cult statue, narrative reliefs, temple of the vibrant new kingdoms of , and the development architecture and urban sacred landscapes. Note: Four-credit courses that of Christianity and Islam. Using the methodologies of Ancient History, meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class Archaeology, Art History and Classics, the course will consider these two preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional approaches through the lens of material culture. How and why did cities, hour of formal instruction. sculpture, religious art, , textiles, military equipment and luxury Attributes: AHAM, CLAS, OCAH, OCST. goods change during this period, and what do they all reveal about how ARHI 2311. and Ancient : Athens and Pericles in the Fifth and why Rome fell—if it did at all?. Century BC "Golden Age". (4 Credits) Attributes: AHAM, CLAS, MVAM, MVST, REST. Long remembered as a political and artistic highpoint in the western ARHI 2341. Medieval Desire and Devotion. (4 Credits) traditions of art, architecture, history, philosophy, politics and theatre, this The medieval world was a complex social network built on relationships course takes a holistic look at the challenges and opportunities of writing that crisscrossed heaven and earth. This course explores how people about 5th century BC Athens. Students will analyze a range of writing of divergent backgrounds-kings and clerics, men and women, rich and about Athens, and its most famous statesman, Pericles. Genres from poor-used works of art and architecture to draw closer to those whose modern scholarship on technical evidence (such as stone inscriptions presence they desired most: , the saints, and one another. It will range and archaeological field reports) to 19th century poetry seeking to evoke widely over the period: from the catacombs of late antique to the a lost “golden age” of art and democracy will all inform students’ own cathedrals of high medieval France and England; from the courts of early writings. This wide range of modern texts and ancient evidence will allow medieval to the cities of late medieval Spain and . Case us to consider all parts of Athenian society. A final project will require studies will include churches, shrines, reliquaries, altar furnishings, and students to alter their writing for a more general audience, by devising, devotional imagery in multiple media-sculpture, , book writing, and shooting a short animated film. Four-credit courses that illumination-for contexts both public and private. Frequent comparisons meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class between "sacred" objects associated with piety and "secular" objects preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional associated with pleasure will provide a broader view of the manifold hour of formal instruction. desires that shaped medieval society. Note: Four-credit courses that Attributes: AHAM, CLAS. meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: AHAM, ITAL, MVAM, MVST, OCAH, OCST.

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ARHI 2360. Illuminated Manuscripts. (4 Credits) ARHI 2430. Portraits. (4 Credits) Before the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century, every Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What can the record of a book was a precious, hand-produced object. Often these manuscripts person’s physical appearance tell us about his or her character, and the were richly decorated with painting, called illumination. This course values of his or her society? During the , portraits examines the development of manuscript illumination over the length were test-cases of artistic skill, tools in marriage negotiations, and of the (c. 300-1500). Issues examined include: illuminated vehicles for the expression of friendship and political power. This class manuscripts and the establishment of the church, illumination and royal will consider the role of portraiture in defining, communicating, and power, manuscripts and popular devotion, and the role of the artist as preserving individual identity. Examining the concepts of “portrait” and illuminator. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week “self-fashioning” in both the literary and visual spheres, we will read require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of authors including Castiglione and Machiavelli, and study artists including the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. and . Four-credit courses that meet for 150 Attributes: AHAM, MVAM, MVST, OCAH, OCST. minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per ARHI 2365. and the Museum. (4 Credits) week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal Medieval works of art were not made to be seen in museums. The instruction. luxurious , paintings, and manuscripts of the Middle Ages (ca. Attribute: AHRB. 400-1400) mostly were created for the eyes of kings, queens, or priests, ARHI 2450. 17th Century Art. (4 Credits) and the makers and original users of these objects never could have This course surveys artistic developments in Europe in the Seventeenth imagined the diverse museumgoers of today in the U.S. But in the early Century and their relationship to the shifting political and intellectual 20th century, American collectors avidly pursued medieval artworks, landscape. The art of the is characterized by an interest in amassing the collections that later would be donated to museums like emotional appeal, visual immediacy, and the articulation of power. the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Morgan Library Major artists include , Bernini, Velázquez, Rubens, Poussin, & Museum. In this course, students learn about the development of , and Vermeer. The themes we will explore include the medieval art (from the end of the Roman Empire through the Gothic era); relationship of art production and reception to the political and religious study the history of museums in Europe and the U.S., with a focus on environment, the development of national styles, the intersection of art, medieval exhibitions; and consider the meanings medieval art holds nature and science, and the emergence of academies as systems for for viewers in this country, where every royal or liturgical object serves artistic training and political control. In addition to introducing students as a relic of a geographically and temporally remote past. This course to the of the Seventeenth Century, this course will emphasize includes site visits. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes the critical analysis of works of art and of art-historical scholarship. per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on Attribute: AHRB. the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. ARHI 2510. 18th Century Art. (4 Credits) Attributes: AHAM, MVAM, MVST. The development, dominance, and decline of the international ARHI 2410. Northern . (4 Credits) style in painting and sculpture will be examined with special attention Northern Renaissance art draws inspiration from the cultural and social devoted to Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Chardin, Tiepolo, Canaletto, developments of the early modern era (circa 1400-1600). Painters strove Guardi, and Gainsborough. A study of the Enlightenment sensibility and to depict the bustling energy of expanding cities, sculptors fabricated the rise of will follow Hogarth, Reynolds, and , among dynamic ensembles aimed at making tangible the subtleties of church others. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week doctrine, and illuminators and printmakers created precious and personal require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of works that enhanced the domestic sphere. In this course we will explore the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. such phenomena, considering how masters—including , Attributes: AHMO, ITAL, REST. Albrecht Dürer, and —experimented and innovated ARHI 2520. American Art. (4 Credits) in an age of artistic revolution. This course includes site visits. Note: This course will examine the development of American painting, sculpture Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three and architecture from colonial times to the early 20th century, with an additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student emphasis on painting. Major artists will be discussed in depth (Copley, in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. West, Allston, Cole, Church, Bierstadt, Mount, Bingham, Homer, Eakins, Attribute: AHRB. Cassatt, O'Keeffe and others). Four-credit courses that meet for 150 ARHI 2418. Women in Renaissance Art. (4 Credits) minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per This course explores the role of gender in Renaissance art, considering week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal women as viewers, subjects, patrons, and creators of Renaissance visual instruction. culture. Major artists considered include Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Attributes: ACUP, AHMO, AMST, ASAM. Bellini, , and . Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attribute: AHRB.

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ARHI 2525. Museums from Revolution to Restitution (1793-present). (4 ARHI 2550. 20th Century Art. (4 Credits) Credits) A study of major trends in modern western art from the late 19th century This course considers the past and future roles of museums in our global to the late 20th century with an emphasis upon developments before society. Beginning with the founding of the in the wake of the 1930. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require , we will explore the relationships between museums, three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the their collections, and their diverse publics—people who build them and student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. work in them, the artists whose works they display, the audiences who Attributes: ACUP, AHMO, AMST, ASAM, ASHS, INST, ISIN. visit them, and the communities they surround. Issues examined include ARHI 2551. Russian Art of the Avant-Garde. (4 Credits) theories of collecting; the practices and ethics of exhibition; empire and One of the most exciting movements in 20th-century art, Russian art nation-building; colonial theft and restitution; and forms of institutional of the Avant-garde, radically reassessed the role of the artist and of critique and anti-colonial action. This class will incorporate site visits to his/her work in society and has had reverberations in Western art that institutions in Manhattan and the Bronx. Note: Four-credit courses that continue today. This course begins with the Russian futurists and meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class traces the manner in which new formal vocabularies and new attitudes preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional towards materials were harnessed after the 1917 Revolution by artists hour of formal instruction. like Popova, Goncharova, Rosanova, Tatlin, Rodchenko, Malevich, etc., to Attribute: AHMO. develop functional objects for the new society. Four-credit courses that ARHI 2526. Art and the Black Atlantic. (4 Credits) meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class This course considers the circulation of art and material culture between preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional Africa, the Americas, and Europe from the early modern era to our current hour of formal instruction. moment of globalization. Of central focus is the ways art makes space Attributes: AHMO, OCAH, OCST. for understanding situations of diaspora, enslavement, empire, and ARHI 2552. Modern Asian Art. (4 Credits) redress that have shaped the Black Atlantic world. Students will engage This upper-level art history course will examine pivotal artwork produced a variety of works across media as well as literature on the conceptual since the late 19th century in Asia, particularly in India, China, and Japan. and historical formation of the “Black Atlantic” to reflect on the ways The classes will consider art produced in the time of colonialism, war, members of the African diaspora have negotiated questions of belonging, modernization, and globalization and examine works by such artists retention, loss, and identity through artistic practice across time and as Gutai, Xu Bing, and Amrita Sher-Gil. Note: Four-credit courses that space. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. hour of formal instruction. Attributes: AFAM, AHGL, AHMO, GLBL. Attributes: AHGL, AHMO, GLBL, INST, ISAS. ARHI 2530. 19th Century Art. (4 Credits) ARHI 2553. Art, Gender, and Sexuality in Asia. (4 Credits) A survey from ca. 1790 through with emphasis on the This upper-level art history course probes into artistic and cultural medium of painting and on artistic developments in France. Focuses on representations of bodies in Asia in relation to such themes as sex, the changing role of the artist in society and on emerging art institutions gender, sexuality, race, nationhood, war, and post-humanity. Through of the modern state. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per thematic examinations of diverse bodily representations, students will week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the learn a broad range of interpretive tools and frameworks to appreciate part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. artistic objects. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per Attribute: AHMO. week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the ARHI 2534. The Victorian City: Art and Architecture in the 19th Century part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. London. (4 Credits) Attributes: AHGL, AHMO, GLBL, WGSS. The class will consider the political, literary, social and spiritual forces ARHI 2571. Topics in . (4 Credits) that have driven artistic production in the Victoria era (from 1837 to This course will address selected topics in 20th century art, broadly 1901), while considering how human concerns are addressed and defined. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week refined in the art that we study. The classes will balance lectures with require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of discussions and assignments, presentations by students and site visits the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. to various museums and galleries, historic houses, landmark buildings, Attribute: AHMO. and monuments in addition to a range of walking tours. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional ARHI 2610. Women of Modernisms. (4 Credits) hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of What role did women play in the development of modernisms in the arts? an additional hour of formal instruction. This course studies 20th- and 21st-century artists, collectors, gallerists, Attribute: AHMO. and writers, including Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Gertrude Stein, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Mitchell, Maggie Nelson, Laura Raicovich, and Pussy ARHI 2535. History of . (4 Credits) Riot. Through the study of artworks, biographical accounts, and literature, The history of photography from 1839 to the present. The work of leading students will trace circles of sociability among women, paying particular European and American photographers will be studied in the light of the attention to these figures’ import for the development of various strands technical, social and aesthetic issues of their time. of modernism and their interdisciplinary points of intersection. Note: Attributes: AHMO, PLUR. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attribute: AHMO. Prerequisite: ARHI 1101.

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ARHI 2620. Introduction to Fashion History. (4 Credits) ARHI 3316. Art and Architecture of Rome. (4 Credits) This course surveys developments in fashion from antiquity to the (Course to be offered as part of Fordham's study abroad program in modern era, with particular attention paid to the impact of technology Rome, the Rome Athenaeum.) Rome once ruled the entire Mediterranean and the social contexts of fashion makers and consumers. Note: world, and its cultural legacy looms large in Western Civilization. At the Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three heart of this legacy is the city that gave its name to the ancient empire. additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student For almost two thousand years, Rome has been more than a literal place in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. - it is an icon of culture, expressing many different characters depending Attributes: AHMO, FASH. on the era. In the ancient world the city epitomized the earthly splendor ARHI 2621. Art and Fashion in the Modern Age. (4 Credits) of Roman civilization. In the Medieval period its political importance A course that examines the intersections of art, design, and fashion from waned, and the city was reduced to a symbolic, spiritual center - the the 20th century to the present. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for city's decaying pagan edifices signaling the triumph of Christianity. In 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation the Renaissance, Humanists and the Papacy sought to re-claim the city's per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal Classical past and re-work it into a new vision of the city as both spiritual instruction. and temporal "caput mundi" (head of the world). This course will examine Attribute: FASH. the art, architecture and culture of these three epochs of the city's history: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance/Baroque, through the lens of its ARHI 3100. Museum Methods. (4 Credits) monuments. Indoor class time will be minimal and our primary mode of Exploration of materials and techniques of the visual arts and a study of exploration will be site visits. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 the different types of modern institutions for their exhibition. The course minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per relies on field trips to museums, galleries and other institutions, mainly week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal in New York City. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week instruction. require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of Attributes: AHAM, AHRB, CLAS, OCAH, OCST. the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: AHMO, AMST, ASAM, URST. ARHI 3350. Age of Cathedrals. (4 Credits) Gothic cathedrals were the skyscrapers of the Middle Ages. These ARHI 3200. Museum Studies in . (4 Credits) impossibly tall and profusely decorated buildings were center points for This class examines the display of Ancient Art using the collection at urban life in between ca. 1150 and 1400. This course Fordham as a foundation. The class considers the aesthetic issues explores the architectural innovations behind the Gothic style as well as of exhibiting ancient objects and addresses the ethical concerns of the extensive adornment of Gothic structures (especially sculpture and collecting “un-provenanced” antiquities. Four-credit courses that meet for ) and objects that were used in them (such as illuminated 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation manuscripts and metalwork) in relation to their sacred, political, social, per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal and economic meanings. Site visits will be included when possible. Note: instruction. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three Attributes: AHAM, CLAS. additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student ARHI 3300. Art Crime and the Law. (4 Credits) in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Art law is a rapidly expanding area of legal inquiry. Issues in the news Attributes: AHAM, MVAM, MVST, REST. today range from WWII era looting to high profile thefts from museums ARHI 3455. Michelangelo. (4 Credits) to the international market in antiquities to the destruction of cultural This course surveys the life, times, and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti property in the Middle East. This course exposes students the legal (1475-1564). We will trace his development from his origins in fifteenth- aspects of these phenomena. Readings range from scholarship to century to his role as the leading artist of sixteenth-century journalism to legal briefs. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes Rome and his ultimate fate as the “divine” artist memorialized by per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on Giorgio Vasari. Our primary goal is to examine his major projects in the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. painting, sculpture, and architecture, and analyze the social, artistic, Attribute: AHMO. political, and religious context that informed their production and reception. Throughout the course, we will be attentive to the “myth of Michelangelo” promoted by his principal biographers, Giorgio Vasari and Ascanio Condivi, and by the artist himself. We will test their histories of Michelangelo’s career against evidence drawn from other sources, including contemporary documents and modern scholarship. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: AHRB, ITAL. Prerequisites: ARHI 1101 or ARHI 1102 or ARHI 1103.

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ARHI 3480. Art and Architecture in London. (4 Credits) ARHI 4100. in Exhibition. (4 Credits) London is one of the most exciting cultural capitals of the world. Its Using the art galleries, museums, and artists' studios in New York City museums, churches and monuments will supply the rich resources for as field sites, this course provides an introduction to the theoretical our art historical studies. While the emphasis will be upon the modern era and practical aspects of contemporary art and exhibition design. In from the late 18th century onward, earlier museum treasures and major recent decades, enormous shifts have occurred in exhibition practices architectural monuments will provide deep historical background for as art itself changed from objects on display, to protected images our study of the modern period. Class lectures will be supplemented by on the walls of the museum, to temporary installations outdoors, visits to The , The Courtauld Institute of Art, The National and eventually moved into virtual reality. We will study an array of Gallery, Tale Britain and Tate Modern, The Victoria and Albert Museum, contemporary exhibition, museum installations, art fairs, international along with galleries and auction houses. Four-credit courses that biennials, and websites. During this seminar, we will examine how issues meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class such as patronage, the art market, globalization, identity politics, and preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional environmental and social justice issues have brought museums and hour of formal instruction. other exhibition spaces into question. We will be meeting with a range Attributes: AHMO, FACC, INST, ISEU. of artists and art professionals. During the term students will create ARHI 3555. Contemporary Art. (4 Credits) a virtual exhibition. The process of building this online exhibition will A survey of recent art, concentrating on work since II. The equip students with several skills, including writing for a public audience, modern European and American roots of contemporary art will be the creation of effective and informative wall labels and educational examined as well. Directions such as Abstract , , programming, visual and digital literacy, and a basic understanding of , Post-Minimalism, Earth Art and will be copyright law and fair use guidelines. emphasized. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week Attribute: AHMO. require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of Prerequisites: ARHI 1101 or ARHI 1102 or ARHI 1103. the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. ARHI 4230. Art and Ethics: Articulating Function in the Visual Arts. (4 Attributes: ACUP, AHMO, AMST, ASAM. Credits) Prerequisites: ARHI 1101 or ARHI 1102 or ARHI 1103. This course will examine the inter-disciplinary dialogue between art ARHI 3565. Issues: Contemporary Art. (4 Credits) and ethics. What exactly do the terms "art" and "ethics" denote... and An in-depth examination of current issues in contemporary art. Four- connote? Can one nudge the terms together into some kind of binary credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three concept, like "ethical art" or "artful morality" (!)? Or do these terms relate additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student at some other, deeper level, with a common ontological foundation? In in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. the course of the semester, we will consider the relationship between art Attribute: AHMO. and ethics, as they have surfaced in philosophy, in theology, in history, in the , and in art criticism from antiquity to the present era. ARHI 3621. Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art. (4 Credits) Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three This course, in conjunction with an international exhibition at the additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student Museum of Art and Design, examines contemporary art’s engagement in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. with costume. It focuses on artists who use garments to examine Attributes: ACUP, AMST, ASAM, EP4, VAL. issues of subjectivity, identity, and difference. This phenomenon may be identified by the term “garmenting,” which describes art that takes the ARHI 4250. Aztec Art. (4 Credits) form of garments to be exhibited as sculpture and installation. Note: This course will examine the art created by the Aztecs, one of the last of Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three the two great pre-Columbian cultures. Holding sway over much of Mexico additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student at the beginning of the 16th century, the Aztec empire was brought to in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. collapse by the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. We will focus on the Attributes: AHMO, FASH. primary source, both Aztec and Spanish, as keys to understanding the Prerequisites: ARHI 1100 or ARHI 1101 or ARHI 1102. art. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AHAM, AHGL, AHRB, AMST, ANTH, ASAM, GLBL, ICC, LAHA, LALS, REST. Prerequisites: ARHI 1101 or ARHI 1102 or ARHI 1103. ARHI 4435. Art of the Tudor Courts. (4 Credits) This course coincides with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's major exhibition of art at the Tudor courts. Focusing on the rich visual culture of the English court from 1485 to 1603, it investigates the power of art to support the dynastic claims of the Tudor dynasty. We will explore the intersection of art and politics during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Classes will meet both on campus and at the museum. Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: AHRB, HIEH, HIST, HIUL, ICC. Prerequisites: ARHI 1101 or ARHI 1102 or ARHI 1103.

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ARHI 4530. Gender and Modern Art. (4 Credits) ARHI 4900. Internship. (1 to 4 Credits) This seminar will examine the role of women as artists and subjects in A department-sponsored professional experience for art history majors the history of modern art. We will discuss the social and educational and minors only. impediments that both inhibited and shaped women's careers. We will ARHI 4999. Tutorial. (1 to 4 Credits) also investigate the cultural construction of gender difference in works Independent research and readings with supervision from a faculty of art by men and , and read theoretical texts on the issues member. involved. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AHMO, AMST, ASAM, WGSS. ARHI 4540. Seminar: Modern Art. (4 Credits) A study of the major movements of Modern Art. This course will also involve various field trips to exhibitions and museums in New York City. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: ACUP, AHMO, AMST, ASAM. ARHI 4555. Art and Ecology. (4 Credits) This course investigates the work of artists, writers, and filmmakers who have dedicated themselves to creating solutions to specific environmental problems or whose works have broadened public concern for ecologically degraded environments. Students will participate in a wide variety of discourses about the personal, public, and ethical dimensions of current environmental issues. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: AHMO, ENST, ESEL, ESSD, ICC. Mutually Exclusive: ARHI 5555. ARHI 4560. Modernism in Art and Literature. (4 Credits) An interdisciplinary study of the connection between modern art and literature. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: AHMO, COLI, ICC. ARHI 4562. Art and Fascism. (4 Credits) This course will study the artistic and cultural production of global fascism, focusing on Italy, Germany, and Japan between the 1920s and the early 1940s. Central issues to our course are the definition of fascism; the relationship between modernity/modernism and fascism; the relationship between /style and political , race, and gender. Students will become familiar with a wide range of artistic/ cultural works from painting to theater, crafts, literature, and film, and read scholarship that employs diverse disciplinary approaches (history, philosophy, film studies, art history, design, literature, education, and psychology). Note: Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: AHGL, COLI, GLBL, ICC, ISAS, ISEU, ISIN. ARHI 4600. Senior Seminar. (4 Credits) As the capstone seminar for art history majors, this seminar has several goals: to give art history majors an introduction to the principal thinkers who shaped the field of art history; to explore some of the key methodological approaches to art history today; to hone students’ skills in critical reading and viewing; and to provide students the opportunity to conduct independent research on an art historical topic of their own choosing. Offered fall semesters only; required for majors. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction.

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